favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude
complete stranger; total stranger
weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
job; work; duties; trade; skill
itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
until now; so far; up to the present
ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
to employ; to hire; to charter
when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
form; shape; figure; visage
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
gun; wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice; puffer fish
carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; ease
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
danger; peril; hazard; risk
to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve; to be frightened; to get cold feet; to chicken out
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
just because; even if; even though
to do for (someone); to take in; to deceive; to hoodwink
obstinate; stubborn; obstinate person; stubborn person
willful; wilful; selfish; carefree; do-as-you-please; freewheeling
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly; hazily; with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh
isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words
(trend of) the times; current of the times; spirit of the age
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
to set about in earnest; to put one's back into something
to take command; to give direction
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
absurd; unreasonable; excessive; very; extremely; excessively